Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thy hands together yet a little, that thou mayest sleep:

but when he is discovered, he must restore seven-fold, forfeiting the entire value of his house.

When he prepared the heavens, there, was I! When he decreed a vault upon the face of the resounding deep;

A generous person will prosper, and anyone who gives water will receive a flood in return.

The one who works his field will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks wisdom.

[There is] much food [in] the field of the poor, but {it is swept away} by {injustice}.

Whoso covereth another man's offense, seeketh love; but he that discloseth the fault, setteth friends at variance.

To start a conflict is to release a flood;
stop the dispute before it breaks out.

He oppressing the father and putting the mother to flight, is a son causing shame and causing disgrace.

A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.

A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop [on the flat roof, exposed to the weather]
Than in a house shared with a quarrelsome (contentious) woman.

Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thine hands together yet a little;

As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.

Like a thorn that goes [without being felt] into the hand of a drunken man,
So is a proverb in the mouth of a fool [who remains unaffected by its wisdom].

Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood,
But who is able to endure and stand before [the sin of] jealousy?

The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.

One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

She creates her own bedding, using fine linen and violet cloth.